Concept Guide

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Using The Storage Management Service
The CLI of Storage Management enables you to perform reporting, configuration, and management
functions of Storage Management from an operating system command shell. The Storage Management
CLI also enables you to script command sequences.
The Storage Management CLI provides expanded options for the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator
omreport and omconfig commands.
NOTE: For more information, see the Dell Server Administrator Installation Guide and Dell
Management Station Software Installation Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals. For
more information on Storage Management, see the Storage Management online Help or the Dell
Server Administrator Storage Management User’s Guide available at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
CLI command syntax
Like all Server Administrator commands, the omreport and omconfig command syntax consists of
specifying command levels. The first command level is the command name: omreport or omconfig.
Subsequent command levels provide a greater degree of specification regarding the type of object on
which the command operates or the information that the command displays.
For example, the following omconfig command syntax has three levels:
omconfig storage pdisk
The following table describes these command levels.
Table 65. Example Command Levels
Command level 1 Command level 2 Command level 3 Use
omconfig Specifies the command
storage Indicates the Server
Administrator service (in
this case, Storage
Management) that
implements the
command
pdisk Specifies the type of
object on which the
command operates
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